We’ve said it before, and we’re going to keep saying it: there’s no better nightcap in the city than DD’s minty, boozy, Fernet-Branca-buzzing Stinger. But the 1970s-channelling basement bar is also the kind of place where you want to sink into a booth for the whole evening, order a bowl of Jatz crackers and French onion dip, and put yourself in the hands of cocktail champions Alicia Clarke and Sebastian “Cosmo” Soto for a dealer’s choice. Pretence-free. Fun-times forward.

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